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Peer reviewedIannuzzi, Patricia – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Urges the design and implementation of strategies in academic libraries for the development of leadership potential. Discusses the components of organizations that lead to organizational maturity, and calls for library leaders with vision, skill, and commitment to nurture an organizational culture that emphasizes leadership development. (20…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Committees, Higher Education, Human Resources
Download full textMasters, Denise G. – 1996
Total Quality Management (TQM) is "a system of continuous improvement employing participative management and centered on the needs of customers." Key components of TQM are employee involvement and training, problem-solving teams, statistical methods, long-term goals and thinking, and recognition that the system, not people, produces…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Improvement, Library Administration, Library Personnel
Naulty, Deborah – 1986
By emulating traits of high-performing corporations such as those described in the book "In Search of Excellence," the library/information profession can also reach the goal of excellence. Attributes characterizing excellent companies include exhibiting a bias for action; maintaining quality service through closeness to the customer;…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Library Administration, Library Personnel, Library Services
Peer reviewedvon Dran, Gisela M. – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Examines the concept of empowerment as a movement to foster the democratization of the workplace and staff development. Empowerment versus participative management, the relationship of empowerment to organizational theory, factors influencing empowerment in organizations, and possible consequences of successful empowerment for employees and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Empowerment, Individual Power, Libraries
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1990
Seven papers making up Track III of the 1989 conference of the Professional Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education (known as CAUSE, an acronym of the association's former name) are presented in this document. The focus of Track III is on organization and personnel issues, and the papers include: "How to…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Uses in Education, Equipment
Peer reviewedLee, Susan – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Stresses the need for research libraries to develop conscious, explicit processes for organizational change through an understanding of organizational development. Internal restructuring, parallel organization for problem solving and guiding change, organizational culture and organizational politics, strategic organizational change, training, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
